DONALD DUCK
WIERE'D YUH GET
THE SHINER SHORTY? RUN INTO A DOOR,
I SUPPOSE!
DWARE
Friday,
NOBODY SOCKED YUM~~ YUH RAN INTO
A DOOR
HUH, BUB?
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WHAT HAPPENED, SONT AND DON'T TELL ME YUH RAN
INTO A DOORI
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February 23, 1940.
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How the R.A.F. Ended A Dornier Raider's Career
STORY BEHIND AN OFFICIAL
AIR MINISTRY
BULLETIN
NEUTRAL FLAGS MEAN NOTHING TO THE NAZIS
sunk: Germany's THE DUTCH molorship Arendskerk, showing the bow clearly painted with the Dutch colours. The plcture was taken just before ahs left a Dutch port on the fatal trip, in which she was contempt for the neutrals is exemplified in the torpedoing of this ship. --Domėl.
Pigeon-Killing -Days-For-Britain.
re
Nation-wide shoots to kill all
in Britain wood-pigeons planned, together, by Whitehall, the farmers and the forestry ex- perla.
The pigeons come in thousands from Scandinavis annually, and are multiplying rapidly, Greedy birds, they will cat almost every- thing a farmer grows; in a recent test 1,296 reeds of corn found in one bird's crop.
were
Heil! Hier ist Sandy
ANDY the Synthelle Scol is the
Slatest nequisition of the German
radio.
an exclusive I understand from source that Hamburg station have re- cently engaged a former Swiss nefor who toured in vaudeville under the stage name of Jimmie Stuart.
He speaks English with an "ersatz" Edinburgh accent, and is believed to be taking the place of the former English speaker, Prince Orloit,
has left Cor- White Russian, who
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many, fearing the consequences of the Soviet pact
Sandy's job, it is thought, will be to try to win over Scots workers on Clydeside and elsewhere with bulle tins in synthetic dialect."
Other English speakers-possibly three or four of them-will also re- Hleve How-Haw in the near future. I understand.
BOWL OF RICE MOVE Chinese Resident's Plan For Relief
the
At yesterday's meeting of the Chinese Chamber of Commered the Secretary announced that a resident, Mr. Dang Tse-chen, had suggested that Hongkong should follow example of Chinese In America In organising a Bowl of Rice movement tesouro: funda for the relief' of Chinaga, and British refugees in the war zones the patient
Mr. Pany has also written to the Wah Kin Tat Po, outlining his scheme in which he hopes to secure $2,000,- 000 for relic!,
G.B.S. Would Sell Art-
£2 Plain
£5
And Coloured
By STUART FLETCHER
BERNARD SHAW wants a notice up in every room at the Royal Academy announcing that any coloured picture there can be bought for £5, and any plain picture
¡for £2.
Shaw Film Producer
Now British
man,
Brilish film history.
[Enemy aircraft were ac- tive off our coasts during the day, attempting to carry out Precau- reconnaissances. tionary measures were taken and active defences put into operation, including-anti- aircraft guns, An enemy aircraft was forced down. It was a Dornier flying-boat. -Official Bulletin. I
Anil here is the story of the [ight-
Two aircraft of the Royal Air Forte Coastal Command recently jengaged in battle two big twin- engined German Dornier 18 ying-boats One enemy machine was destroyed and the second driven off with no loss to the British.
Flying in formation on reconnais- sance patrol, one of the two British aircraft sighted a German flying-boat. The British aircraft warned its com- panion, and the two formed up for ttack, Then in turn they dived on the Dornier, getting in bursts of gun- fire on the enemy's engines and fuse- ige. The Dornier made a steep tura so as to bring both front and reor guns into action, the German gunner a shot succeeding in getting home
ot one British attacker, but without effect.
WALT DISNEY??
Nazi 'Terror'
Ultimatum
Angers Dutch
WITH brutal swiftness Nazi Germany has made good her threat to take "active measures” against the Dutch if they refused to knuckle under to demands for a pro-German "neutrality."
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"Germany, fighting for jer existence, foes not hesitate to regard the attitude of passive neutrality of certain countries as deliberate assistance to the enemy," said the Nazi spokesman In Berlia
Shortly afterwards, the 8,000. ton Dulch motor-ship Taandoen was torpedoed in the Channel and several of her crew of 58 are missing.
horror of Wavo
swopt through Holland when the news of the sinking became known. But so far from being intimidat. ed by the German threats, the Daich showed more determina- tion than ever to resist them.
Only a few hours after she had rescued 34 survivors of the Tajandoen, the Belgian steamer Louls Sheld (6,000 tons) ashore la a gale near Start Point.
ran
Heavy seas battered her as she
·lay on the' eastern end of the beach, sting heavily and com- pletely at the mercy of the storm.
Eight men who were lost when the Washington (209 tons), an Admiralty trawler, was mined off the East Coast are thought to be the first victims of the mines dropped from the alr by Nazis earlier in the day.
NO EARLY
COLLAPSE - OF HITLER
The two British aircrafi also turn- ed, and climbed into position for further attacks. One dived head on to the enemy, landing a burst of fire
"I DO not belleve in an early into his elarboard wing. The other followed up with a steep dive from collapse of Germany. It is a behind, firing continuously within a few yards of the Dornier sound maxim to be prepared for und raking-it-at-pointblank range, the worst."
until
Whilst the enemy repeated his steep- That advice was given by Major- turn manoeuvre, the first British al-General Sir Frederick Maurice, pre-
dived lucker climbed above him and
message to the annual conference of gain from another quarter, getting sident of the British Legion, In a In a burst of fire on the cockpit the Metropolitan Area Women's Sec- before pulling out into a climbing tion of the Legion In London. turn. The second British aircraft then attacked again, landing bursts of gunfire into both the engines of another bullet in the rear part of the German, but receiving in return the fuselage.
"We have not really begun to feel the pinch yet, but it would be a foolish and a useless optimism to suppose that the pluch will not come," he wrote.
"We have won the Orst round, have End Of A Dornier
istili tremendous resources to put into With-blue smoke streaming from the Beld, and can therefore regard He says that if the Red Cross (on
confidence that whose behalf the exhibition is being its engines the Dornier, out of control, the result with complete confidence held) is to make any money out of dived into the sea, One of the British but not with a
It, prices must be drastically reduced. alreraft then returned to its base to makes us lax or selfish.
The Academy," In his opinion, investigate any damage due to the "must abandon the tradition that hits it had received. The second artists must price their works Britlah aircraft stayed to watch the In tens, hundreds and thousands of end of the enemy, which heeled over and sank after the crew had taken guineas."
anki Augustus
"There may be muny more rounds
to besides the first. All our available Sir Frederick asked women effort will be needed." economise. He declared it had been said with some truth that what an English household wasted would feed
French family.
NABRIEL PASCAL, the Hungarian Among the artists exhibiting are to their dinghy.
who persuaded Bernard Shaw Gerald Brockhurst
At this point a second Dornier was to allow him to Bim "Pygmalion."John, both of whom charge 1,000 has become a naturalised English-guineas for commissioned portraits.sighted. Again this was below the
I told
their fellow-British aircraft, which immediately
Both the British pilot and successive diving attacks of its ad- "Pygmalion" had its share in making exhibice some of the fellow dived to the attack with the sun
salesmanship yesterday, This is what behind it.
his rear gunner Bred bursts, hitting versary. After a number of bursts the enemy's engines and fuselage. of gunfire had been seen to hit the It cost less than £80,000-partly be they said:
Can't Ho Add? cause Mr. Bhaw was very accom-¡
This second Dornier attempted de- German, both aircraft entered the modaling about his feen,
C. W. R. Nevinson: "What a silly fensive tacties similar to those of the clouds, where the enemy made good
Cun't he add? Afrst, turning steeply, to meet the his escape. frame alone costs £5. What about When he secured the rights from Mr.palat and canvas?"
Shaw, Pascal confessed frankly that he had no money. Then he picted a portrait of Shaw: "It plc- people set about raising funds where he turen came down in price could
In America, so far, it has taken over!
£300,000. In Britain the returns old gentleman! have been £240.000,
"Major Barbara”
Colin Colahan, who has just com-
could be encouraged to buy them as they buy books and records-to look
New Fascal is at work on another at and hear when they feel like it,
Shaw subject, "Major Barbara,”
"At present they pay so much that
The great author has written a new they feel they have got to hang o scene in which the treatment of the picture on the wall, and have the given a wretched thing staring at them for armamenla question is
the rest of their lives, to get their topical significance.
Army Sir Edwin Lutyens, President of the Wendy Hüler, the Eliza of "Pygma-money's worth."
ilon," plays the Balvation officer of the title, and Dame Bybil Royal Academy, told me that some Thorndike, who was Major Bar-schieme for a reduction in prices was, Recently he bara in the 1929 revival, comes into under consideration. the film as another Salvation Army sold one of his own sketches at a
village foto for five shilinga! character.
Arms Makor Robert Morley plays the arimaments
manufacturer,
Jean Cadell, Others in the parts already cast in-
olute Marlo Lobr. Walter Indd and David Tros.
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